Letter, Diaries

Lord Frederic Leighton (1830-1896), was one of the most famous British artists of the nineteenth century. The recipient of many national and international awards and honours, he was well acquainted …

José Victoriano González-Pérez (1887 – 1927), better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter and sculptor born in Madrid who lived and worked in France most of his life. Closely connected to the …

This edition, originally published in 1895, has been one of the first attempts made to publish a collection of Coleridge’s letters. The selection has been made from a great mass of correspondence, …

In ‘The Letters of Robert Burns’, the reader is granted a unique insight into the life and mind of one of Scotland’s most beloved poets. This collection of letters showcases Burns’ literary talents …

This collection compiles the works on which the fame of one of the most fascinating writers of the twentieth century was built.  Francis Scott Fitzgerald became a mouthpiece for ideas and expressed …

De Profundis Oscar Wilde – Written during his time in Reading Gaol, De Profundis is Oscar Wilde’s moving letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, whose relationship with Wilde led to the poet’s imprisonment. …

‘Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.’ Camille Pissarro Camille Pissarro was French artist, the only painter to show in all eight of the …

Ingres’s style was formed early in life and changed comparatively little. His earliest drawings, such as the Portrait of a Man (1797) already show a suavity of outline and an extraordinary control of …

Jacob Jordaens was one of three Flemish Baroque painters, along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, to bring prestige to the Antwerp school of painting. Like Rubens, Jordaens painted …

When, more than ten years ago, I wrote the first article on Remy de Gourmont which, so far as I know, appeared in America—North America, bien entendu, for the author of La Culture des Idées and Le …